The New South Wales Coalition Government has labelled its federal colleagues as "out of touch" on energy and climate policies.

Key points:

Mr Harwin said the Morrison Government needed to end the "climate wars"

He said the State Government would be taking independent action after the National Energy Guarantee was ditched

The NSW Opposition said the op-ed was a "lengthy confession of failure" by the Berejiklian Government

Ahead of a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting of state and federal energy ministers in Adelaide today, the state's Energy Minister Don Harwin said he would be pushing for rules to force power companies to reduce their carbon emissions, a move he labelled a "circuit-breaker".

"Today we're putting emissions reduction back on the table where it should be," Mr Harwin said outside the meeting.

"I'm going to argue for work to start on the drafting of an emissions obligation to complement the reliability obligation that we're working on today."

An emissions obligation and a reliability obligation were both key parts of the National Energy Guarantee championed by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

But the emissions obligation was dumped by the Federal Government in the final days of Mr Turnbull's time as prime minister.

In an opinion piece for the Australian Financial Review published this morning, Mr Harwin claimed the Morrison Government's policy changes in the area had jeopardised certainty and delayed investment in the sector.

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